Reuters - A Russian man who described local police
as "scum" in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail
sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of
a crackdown on free speech online.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080707/en_celeb_eo/287258018a7c_4057_82d6_e9b40527147e"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080707/capt.821a66bfd499c7bc54e685102c38a242.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=aYuwtFqcPGrHT2UHt4RfTw--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Steve-O Blogs: I'm In a Mental Institution(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - "Four f--king months" and Steve-O's still sober. At least according to his most recent blog post.</p><br clear="all"/>
NewsFactor - I first met our solution provider, Ray Tetlow, the founder of Skyytek, on the Oracle Small Business (OSB from now on) user forum. At the time we were struggling with version 7 of OSB. It was really incomplete and badly tested software. Not only was it painfully slow, but also a lot of the features on which we based our purchasing decision just did not work.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080703/en_celeb_eo/3e9124fd95ce_447b_8d7f_3e1e0f26ec37"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080704/capt.a2998d425e801b33e5a47a40cc8b8170.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=_1Gu1IlY4M0Cc.4kMqVHQg--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="Rumer Willis vs. the Bloggers(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Bruce Willis isn't the only tough guy in the family. His daughter Rumer can take on mean bloggers with the same ferocity her dad disposes of, like, terrorists or whatever.</p><br clear="all"/>
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/208802217/28104340/SIG=131h295t0/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=2BUSPWZ2FG1MUQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - An Intel researcher's blog said software developers need to consider major changes in their code base to prepare for many-core computing.
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/208802032/28104363/SIG=131h295t0/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=2BUSPWZ2FG1MUQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - The job involves monitoring and analyzing Web pages, blogs, chat rooms, and the like for possible threats to U.S. interests and forces.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080630/wr_nm/zimbabwe_election_blogs_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080630/2008_06_30t100054_450x295_us_zimbabwe_election_blogs.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=VT7NmptZCm5C5IP9LLxOUg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe listens to speeches at the African Union summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, June 30, 2008. (Asmaa Waguih - /Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Robert Mugabe's
re-election sparked cries of outrage from Zimbabwean bloggers
on Monday and demands for international intervention.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080627/pl_nm/japan_ad_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080627/2008_06_26t235637_450x310_us_japan_ad.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=QNLbsGlaSmnLV92dfjazUQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is silhouetted by a television light during a campaign visit to the Las Vegas Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, Nevada June 24, 2008. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A Japanese mobile phone firm has halted
an advertisement depicting a monkey as a political candidate
after bloggers said the commercial was a racial slur against
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080625/ap_en_mu/music_kanye_west_bonnaroo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080625/capt.b926d8b32c8b4e6e9d81c6cb3e0cf849.music_kanye_west_bonnaroo_nyet100.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=H0b4zrvvCjDvj158oKEsFA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Kanye West attends a fashion show in Paris, on Feb. 28, 2008. In a rant on his blog written Tuesday June 24, 2008, West defended himself from criticism over his delayed performance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)" border="0" /></a>AP - NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West defended himself from criticism over his delayed performance at Bonnaroo, saying on his blog that the flak he's taken has left him "the most offended I've ever been."</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080625/tc_nm/workplace_blackberry_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080625/2008_06_25t100153_450x300_us_workplace_blackberry.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=awebWDHDN5epqMzPPaqatA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="File photo shows Blackberry devices in Los Angeles March 3, 2006. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Should an employee get paid for
reading a BlackBerry at the dinner table, sending an office
e-mail or posting a job-related blog at home?</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080625/en_music_eo/2ee224372d57_4e1a_8b9b_cd4735bc22c1"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080625/capt.7fda495dadd091b1ed1f227bac45e654.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=zEXIg3A33tve8kxxY.PypA--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="You Wouldn't Like Kanye (Blogging) Angry(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Ever write something in anger and think it sounds totally rational and then look back at it a few months later and laugh at your own sense of self-importance?</p><br clear="all"/>
Reuters - Malaysia's deputy prime minister
dismissed on Wednesday as "total garbage" a blogger's
allegation that his wife was involved in the murder of a
Mongolian woman.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080624/tc_nm/yahoo_microsoft_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080624/2008_06_24t145425_450x341_us_yahoo_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=WjNd_uhRSlldGAuxKYzICQ--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Microsoft runs across a news ticker above a Yahoo sign in New York City May 19, 2008. (Joshua Lott/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Shares of Yahoo Inc
rose as much as 11 percent on Tuesday, reversing
earlier declines, after contradictory reports on whether buyout
talks with Microsoft Corp were heating up again.</p><br clear="all"/>
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/208800342/27991271/SIG=131kei0vp/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=PEALMJEISODVAQSNDLQSKH0CJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - The founder of The Huffington Post said traditional news organizations have failed to uncover and report the truth.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/rssblog/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080623/en_celeb_eo/c17da41f7ce2_4055_bdff_600d903296f9"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/eonline/20080623/capt.a7f179da37a194ecaa3d5d0f2f98ea81.jpg?x=130&y=130&q=85&sig=VBD3hzQZutABUah6jYXf.g--" align="left" height="130" width="130" alt="A Blond, a Bimbo and a Blogger Walk Into a Church...(E! Online)" border="0" /></a>E! Online - Unfortunately, this is not a joke. Or is it?</p><br clear="all"/>
USATODAY.com - Achieving visibility in Google's search rankings can be a mystery. To help solve the riddle, USA TODAY sat down with Google's Matt Cutts, an engineer and active blogger, who has five easy tips on how to "optimize" your site so Google and the rest of the world can find it.
